Interprofessional Education: Perception of Professors and Students of Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Medicine Courses

Abstract Background The problems for training in interprofessional education (IPE) of health professionals for this new century are systemic: limitation in competencies for teamwork, persistent stratification of gender relations in the status of health workers, a focused emphasis on technical skills, difficulty in analysis and understanding of broader problematic issues of the context, sporadic instead of continuous care, quantitative and qualitative imbalances in the professional labor market, and fragility in leadership skills to improve the performance of the health system. This study evaluated the perception of students and teachers of health area courses at a private university in São Paulo regarding interprofessional education. Methods A sociodemographic questionnaire to delineate the participants’ profile and the RIPLS questionnaire that assesses the attitudes and perceptions of students and professionals to determine their readiness for interprofessional learning were applied. RIPLS is proposed to measure the change in attitudes, the effects of different interventions, and the effectiveness of interventions in changing attitudes and perceptions. Results The main results were that training in Medicine and Nursing is easier for interprofessional education than that in Physiotherapy. By comparing the perception of the academic community regarding gender, we find that participating women are more available for teamwork and collaborative practices. Conclusion To improve the perception of students and teachers in collaborative practice, the need for a teacher training program on IPE principles and an early and more frequent insertion of IPE practices in the curricula of courses is evident.

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Perceptions and illusions of students regarding presumably undetected cheating during the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece

10.35542/osf.io/ap7wf ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Yiannis Kiouvrekis

Keyword(s):

Sharp Increase ◽

Academic Community ◽

Academic Fraud ◽

Perceptions Of Students ◽

Attitudes And Perceptions ◽

Preliminary Research

The present study constitutes a preliminary research on the attitudes and perceptions of students in Greece concerning cheating in exams and plagiarism in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey conducted among 578 students shows a sharp increase in the employment of underhanded means by students towards attaining better grades in the exams. These findings need to be evaluated by the academic community to put a check on the rising number of instances of academic fraud.

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Implementation status of antimicrobial stewardship programs in hospitals: A quantitative analysis study in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

MedPharmRes ◽

10.32895/ump.mpr.4.2.5 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 34-39

Author(s):

Thi-Hai-Yen Nguyen ◽

Truong Van Dat ◽

Phuong-Thao Huynh ◽

Chi-Thuong Tang ◽

Vinh-Chau Van Nguyen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Antimicrobial Stewardship ◽

Health Workers ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Ho Chi Minh City ◽

Multi Drug Resistance ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Clostridioides Difficile ◽

The Status ◽

Specific Assessment ◽

Implementation Status

Vietnam has one of the highest multi drug resistance in Asia. Although, despite many efforts to implement the Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs (the ASP) since 2016, studies that on the implementation policy are very lacking of this program are limited. For that reason, we conducted this cross-sectional study to analyze the viewpoint of health workers (HWs) on the implementation of the ASP at some hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). An assessment of 234 HWs showed that the implementation of the ASP in HCMC hospitals was above average (62.7/100.0). A barrier to the implementation consisted of the deficiency in finances, guidelines for diagnosis, and specific interventions for some common infections, such as distributing current antibiogram and monitoring rate of Clostridioides difficile infections. These were the widely recognized problems in initially implementing the ASP. Although most HWs are aware of the importance of implementing the ASP (79.1%), the specific assessment has not been recorded clearly due to the numerous neutral responses. Despite the support of the leadership, the implementation still faces many difficulties and limitations, especially in 3rd and 4th class hospitals. Besides, there was a lack of wide dissemination of information on the ASP at each unit. To generalize the status of the ASP implementation, researchers should conduct qualitative and quantitative studies with a larger scale.

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Interprofessional education and collaborative practice in Kuwait: attitudes and perceptions of health sciences students

Journal of Interprofessional Care ◽

10.1080/13561820.2021.1884537 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Maram G. Katoue ◽

Abdelmoneim I. Awad ◽

Alan W. Dow ◽

Terry L. Schwinghammer

Keyword(s):

Interprofessional Education ◽

Health Sciences ◽

Collaborative Practice ◽

Attitudes And Perceptions ◽

Health Sciences Students

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The Status of Parental Notification Policy and Practice for Students Involved with Alcohol Abuse at a Private University in Nigeria

Higher Education Policy ◽

10.1057/hep.2015.22 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 218-233

Author(s):

Augusta Olaore ◽

Israel Olaore

Keyword(s):

Alcohol Abuse ◽

Private University ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Parental Notification ◽

The Status

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Investigating the Role of Google Classroom as an LMS in Tertiary Level EAP Classes

BELTA Journal ◽

10.36832/beltaj.2021.0501.01 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

S. M. Sanzana Rahman ◽

Lubaba Sanjana

Keyword(s):

Language Learning ◽

Diffusion Of Innovations ◽

Private University ◽

Computer Assisted ◽

Tertiary Level ◽

Computer Assisted Language Learning ◽

Academic English ◽

Mixed Methods Approach ◽

Attitudes And Perceptions

Using an online platform, such as Google Classroom to engage learners, is a recent practice in the field of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). It can be used to engage learners to learn academic English skills at the tertiary level in Bangladesh. This paper examines adoption of Google Classroom through the lens of Rogers’ (2003) diffusion of innovations to investigate learners’ experiences, attitudes, and perceptions towards Google Classroom as a Learning Management System (LMS) to engage students to learn the four skills of English. The researchers have undertaken a mixed methods approach to collect data from 105 tertiary level students who are taking EAP courses in a private university. The findings suggest that the participants have strong positive attitude towards the use of different features of Google Classroom due to the availability of training and technological tools. This study is crucial for understanding the importance of using instructional technology (IT) in reshaping English teaching practices in Bangladesh.

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Youth welfare work

Reframing Irish Youth in the Sixties ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781786941237.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 180-216

Author(s):

Carole Holohan

Keyword(s):

National Level ◽

Youth Work ◽

Welfare Work ◽

Youth Welfare ◽

The Status ◽

The 1960S ◽

The Many ◽

Changing Attitudes ◽

The Impact ◽

International Strategies

Chapter five focuses on the development of youth welfare work, in particular the youth club, as a response to concerns that young people were not using their leisure time appropriately. Fred Powell, Martin Geoghegan, Margaret Scanlon and Katharina Swirak highlight how an international volunteer boom in the 1960s, and in the field of youth work in particular, in part reflected changing attitudes to youth and concerns about what seemed a disaffected generation. This chapter assesses developments in youth work at a local and national level, highlighting the impact of international strategies in this field and the tensions between the many players in the Irish scene. It attests to the ways in which external frameworks, emanating from supranational bodies such as the Council of Europe and the United Nations, reframed understandings of youth in the adult imagination and influenced how youth was perceived by voluntary and statutory organisations. It also highlights the ways in which some international ideas and models were embraced but others challenged the status quo, and therefore faced resistance.

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Intensity of Nematode Infection in Children Aged 3 to 5 Years Living in Mukuru Kwa Njenga Slum Settlement, Nairobi, Kenya

Journal of Tropical Medicine ◽

10.1155/2020/4124808 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 ◽

pp. 1-7 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lynda Allan ◽

Fiona N. Mbai ◽

Dorcas S. Yole ◽

Moses Owino

Keyword(s):

Health Workers ◽

Clinical Manifestations ◽

Infection Intensity ◽

Nematode Infection ◽

Intensity Of Infection ◽

Mean Intensity ◽

Number Of Children ◽

The Status ◽

Severe Infections ◽

Stool Samples

Background. The burden of nematode infections is high mostly in children below 5 years old, with clinical manifestations ranging from mild to painful symptoms due to severe infections that end up suppressing the immune system of the infected children. The occurrence of these infections is highest in areas of extreme poverty. This study evaluated the intensity of nematode infections and assessed the status of deworming in children aged 3 to 5 years living in Mukuru slum settlement, Nairobi County, Kenya. Methodology. A total of 172 children aged between 3 and 5 years were sampled across the 5 major villages of Mukuru Slum settlement: Kwa Njenga, Vietnum, Wapewape, Kwa Reuben, and Motomoto. Community health workers administered questionnaires on the deworming history of children. Stool samples were collected, macroscopically examined, and microscopically analysed using Kato-Katz technique to assess the intensity of infection. The intensities of nematode infections were expressed as eggs per gram (epg) of faeces. Results. The point prevalence of nematode infection among the 98 children in the 1st sampling was 25.5% with a mean infection intensity of 5424 epg, whereas among the 74 children sampled in 2nd sampling, 47.3% had nematode infection with a mean infection intensity of 12384 epg. The average nematode infection for the 172 participants was 34.9% with a mean intensity of 17808 epg. The highest number of children infected with nematodes was in the village of Wapewape where 34 participants were examined and 36.3% were infected with a mean intensity of 3216 epg. Kwa Reuben and Vietnum villages had the same prevalence values of 32.4% where 34 participants in each village had a mean intensity of 3624 epg and 4512 epg, respectively. In both samplings, more than 80% of children had been dewormed more than 6 months prior to the study. Ascaris lumbricoides was the only species of intestinal nematodes identified to be present in the stool samples of children in this study, whereas Trichuris trichiura and hookworm infections were found to be absent. The intensity of infection was not dependent on age or gender.

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Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

Encyclopedia of Social Work ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.1321 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Shelley Cohen Konrad

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Interprofessional Education ◽

Health Workers ◽

Care Delivery ◽

Core Competencies ◽

Collaborative Practice ◽

Direct Care ◽

World Health ◽

Quality Health Care ◽

Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

The World Health Organization defines interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) as when multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds provide comprehensive health services working with patients/clients, families, caregivers, and communities to deliver quality health care across settings. IPCP has long been considered a best practice model to improve effective health-care delivery; however, implementation of collaborative practice models and evidence to support their efficacy have been relatively slow to develop. IPCP is inextricably linked to interprofessional education and practice (IPEP), which brings together students and practitioners across disciplines and practices, and includes direct care workforce, people/patients/clients, families, and communities to learn with, from, and about each other to prepare them for integrated workplace practice. The article will explore national and global interprofessional collaborative practice initiatives; outline core competencies and evidence for collaborative practice; provide examples of IPCP implementation; and discuss the role social work plays in the development and leadership of collaborative practice.

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